1758 - Russian invasion of Brandenburg – Frederick’s Prussian Army OOB August 10

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Description

Commander-in-chief: King Frederick II

By August 10, 1758, the Prussian army of King Frederick II assembled near Grüssau counted 14 bns, 36 sqns, and 40 field pieces.

Main Body

Infantry (14 bns)

• Grenadier Battalion Kremzow (1 bn)
• VI. "Standing" Grenadier Battalion Rohr (1 bn)
• Grenadier Battalion Wedell (1 bn)
• Asseburg (2 bns)
• Forcade (2 bns)
• Kalckstein (2 bns)
• Prinz von Preußen (2 bns)
• Grenadier Battalion Alt-Billerbeck (1 bn)
• Wied Fusiliers (2 bns) will be left at Cüstrin on August 22

Cavalry (38 sqns for a total of 5,400 men)

• Garde du Corps (3 sqns)
• Seydlitz Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
• Gens d'Armes (5 sqns)
• Leib-Carabiniers (5 sqns)
• Czettritz Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Normann Dragoons (5 sqns)
• Zieten Hussars (10 sqns)

Artillery (40 heavy pieces)

• 6 x new 12-pdr guns from Schweidnitz
• 2 x new howitzers from Schweidnitz
• 6 x 12-pdr guns
• 22 unidentified pieces

Copper pontoons (unspecified number)

References

Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 8 Zorndorf und Hochkirch, Berlin, 1910, Anhang 22